I’ve seldom found a podcast that I’ve listened to more than once, but these four podcasts I listen to regularly. All feature fascinating discussions, and all are professionally done.
Digital Campus is a discussion between three historians at the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. They cover the news and issues about how technology affects higher education and public history institutions. At the end of the show, the hosts give helpful links.
THAT Podcast, also from CHNM, is a how-to podcast that includes video. Its title stands for “The Humanities and Technology Podcast.” The first part of each episode is an interview with someone whose work affects digital humanities. The second part explains how to use a particular technology. For example, the first two episodes covered WordPress and Omeka.
History Conversations, a third podcast from CHNM, offers interviews with historian, both professional and amateur.
New Books In History offers interviews with authors of recently published history books. Two notable episodes have discussed Malcolm Rohrbough’s The Trans-Appalachian Frontier: People, Societies, and Institutions and Eric Gardner’s Jennie Carter: A Black Journalist of the Early West.
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This December my family went to the New England Aquarium shortly after Christmas. We’ve gone there as a family before, and we wanted to take Abby too. We saw fish, turtles, penguins, and all other manner of exotic aquatic life. Unfortunately, the aquarium was too dark to take many pictures of humans. [Read more »]
In preparation for moving to our new apartment, I’ve been trying to divest myself of as much stuff as possible. Four jackets that I got from the free table have been put back on the free table. Mounds of paperwork (but not letters from my grandmother) have a new home at the recycling facility. If I don’t use it once a week, or at least once per month, I’m giving it or throwing it away.
Books, of course, are an exception. Though I’ve (mostly) given up acquiring new books in favor of suggesting that my local library buy them, I don’t have the heart to ruthlessly prune my books. I’ve heard recently of BJU faculty who have given away two-thirds or more of their library because they are moving offices; they are better men than I.
But some books aren’t worth keeping around, so I’ve started selling books on Amazon. In the past week, I’ve sold three books and one software CD. For textbooks used at BJU, I’ll probably make more money selling directly to the buyer. But for other books, I would never be able to find a buyer on my own, so Amazon is a good deal. Amazon has taken about an 20% cut of total earnings, and shipping costs have taken another 7%, so I’m making about 73% of the total sale price. It’s not enough money to retire early, but cash always beats clutter.
